KENDELL CARTER: MARVEL

Now through May 6th Kendell Carter’s solo show, Marvel is at Edward Cella Art & Architecture on La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles. An innovative set of site-specific installations, or “environments” as Carter prefers to call them; Marvel attempts to present meditations on race, gender, material culture, and shared history. As an artists who’s practice has continually transected the divide between art and life, Carter’s latest show casts its net far and wide to critique contemporary issues and policies: the police shootings of Keith Lamont Scott and North Carolina’s abject neglect of its LBGTQ communities, to representations of the South’s notorious “Jim Crow” laws of the 1950s. Carter’s willingness to confront and renegotiate the meaning of objects and attitudes of our highly charged socio-political moment is indicative of an artistic practice that is aware of the impact of visual culture.